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The GT5000 has been sitting here with the new plow for about 3 to 4 weeks. Of course this is the reason we suddenly have no snow. A whole month of January in Boston with no snow? Go figure.
Anyhow it snowed about 3 inches yesterday and then turned to rain and rained all night. I got up this morning and found it was all a mess. Completely SOUP. My wife took a couple of shovel fulls and said "screw this, I'm going shopping", she then pointed to the covered GT and said "your new toy better be able to clear this mess by the time I get home after all the money you dropped". Hah, a true challenge!!
I was nervous 'cause this stuff weighed a ton and I knew the temps were going to drop all day, if I couldn't plow it, we would have 3 inches of solid ice by evening.
The GT started right up and kicked a$$. It never slipped or stalled once. I was pushing piles of this goo up off the driveway on way on to the lawn to make room in case it snowed again. A couple of times I had to drop the blade and bang it while backing up to unstick the snow from the blade. The driveway probably is 6 car lengths long and 3 wide at the bottom. 30 minutes later it was nothing but blacktop, threw some salt down and it was dry in a couple of hours.
I just noticed that no other neighbor bothered to shovel due to the weight of this crap and now their driveways are all frozen.
That dozer blade, chains and weights was one great investment. First time I ever enjoyed clearing this driveway. Tractors in Winter, who'd have thought.
Just thought I'd share......
paul o's
Anyhow it snowed about 3 inches yesterday and then turned to rain and rained all night. I got up this morning and found it was all a mess. Completely SOUP. My wife took a couple of shovel fulls and said "screw this, I'm going shopping", she then pointed to the covered GT and said "your new toy better be able to clear this mess by the time I get home after all the money you dropped". Hah, a true challenge!!
I was nervous 'cause this stuff weighed a ton and I knew the temps were going to drop all day, if I couldn't plow it, we would have 3 inches of solid ice by evening.
The GT started right up and kicked a$$. It never slipped or stalled once. I was pushing piles of this goo up off the driveway on way on to the lawn to make room in case it snowed again. A couple of times I had to drop the blade and bang it while backing up to unstick the snow from the blade. The driveway probably is 6 car lengths long and 3 wide at the bottom. 30 minutes later it was nothing but blacktop, threw some salt down and it was dry in a couple of hours.
I just noticed that no other neighbor bothered to shovel due to the weight of this crap and now their driveways are all frozen.
That dozer blade, chains and weights was one great investment. First time I ever enjoyed clearing this driveway. Tractors in Winter, who'd have thought.
Just thought I'd share......
paul o's